DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

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Name

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.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Google

IBM

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2017

2015

2021

Current release

2.0

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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