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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

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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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rethinkdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

STS Soft SC

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2009

2011

2017

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Transact SQL

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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.

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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