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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Sphinx vs. Stardog vs. StarRocks

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.93
Rank#121  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.95
Rank#193  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoresphinxsearch.comwww.stardog.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoresphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.stardog.comdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperGoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.Stardog-UnionThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2017200120102020
Current release3.5.1, February 20237.3.0, May 20203.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javauser defined functions
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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.noAccess rights for users and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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