DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. Tigris

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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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2022

Current release

6.0, February 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined 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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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 Manticore index.

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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.

Access rights for users and roles

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