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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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.Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Wide column storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.97
Rank#47  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score30.39
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score5.35
Rank#71  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score6.06
Rank#61  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablessphinxsearch.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorelearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.SenX
Initial release20172014201220012015
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON typesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJavaScriptnonoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyes, with Cloud FunctionsJavaScriptnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowwith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionoptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
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 can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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