DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd vs. LeanXcale vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd vs. LeanXcale vs. Sphinx

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.leanxcale.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

Hyprcubd, Inc.

LeanXcale

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
Java
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

token access

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