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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenSearch vs. ScyllaDB vs. searchxml

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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.

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.scylladb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.scylladb.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Google

Amazon Web Services

ScyllaDB

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2017

2021

2015

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

yes, Lua

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

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

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

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 can be defined per object

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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