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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Qdrant vs. STSdb

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.intersystems.comqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleInterSystemsQdrantSTS Soft SC
Initial release2017199720212011
Current release2018.1.4, May 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageRustC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
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, groups and rolesKey-based authenticationno

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