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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic vs. Quasardb

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud 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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comwww.marklogic.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.marklogic.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareMarkLogic Corp.quasardb
Initial release20172010201720012009
Current release6.0, February 202311.0, December 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, with Range Indexesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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