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  5. Cloud Firestore vs Google Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Firestore vs Google Cloud Bigtable

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Overview

Google Cloud Bigtable
Google Cloud Bigtable
Stacks173
Followers363
Votes25
Cloud Firestore
Cloud Firestore
Stacks751
Followers900
Votes112

Cloud Firestore vs Google Cloud Bigtable: What are the differences?

Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps. Cloud Firestore is a NoSQL document database that lets you easily store, sync, and query data for your mobile and web apps - at global scale; Google Cloud Bigtable: The same database that powers Google Search, Gmail and Analytics. Google Cloud Bigtable offers you a fast, fully managed, massively scalable NoSQL database service that's ideal for web, mobile, and Internet of Things applications requiring terabytes to petabytes of data. Unlike comparable market offerings, Cloud Bigtable doesn't require you to sacrifice speed, scale, or cost efficiency when your applications grow. Cloud Bigtable has been battle-tested at Google for more than 10 years—it's the database driving major applications such as Google Analytics and Gmail.

Cloud Firestore and Google Cloud Bigtable can be categorized as "NoSQL Database as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Cloud Firestore are:

  • Documents and collections with powerful querying
  • iOS, Android, and Web SDKs with offline data access
  • Real-time data synchronization

On the other hand, Google Cloud Bigtable provides the following key features:

  • Unmatched Performance: Single-digit millisecond latency and over 2X the performance per dollar of unmanaged NoSQL alternatives.
  • Open Source Interface: Because Cloud Bigtable is accessed through the HBase API, it is natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem and supports Google’s big data products. Additionally, data can be imported from or exported to existing HBase clusters through simple bulk ingestion tools using industry-standard formats.
  • Low Cost: By providing a fully managed service and exceptional efficiency, Cloud Bigtable’s total cost of ownership is less than half the cost of its direct competition.

"Easy to use" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Cloud Firestore, while over 5 developers mention "High performance" as the leading cause for choosing Google Cloud Bigtable.

ReWrite, Whale 🐳, and FetchyFox are some of the popular companies that use Cloud Firestore, whereas Google Cloud Bigtable is used by Spotify, Resultados Digitais, and Rainist. Cloud Firestore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 37 company stacks & 34 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud Bigtable, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on Google Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Firestore

akash
akash

Aug 27, 2020

Needs adviceonCloud FirestoreCloud FirestoreFirebase Realtime DatabaseFirebase Realtime DatabaseAmazon DynamoDBAmazon DynamoDB

We are building a social media app, where users will post images, like their post, and make friends based on their interest. We are currently using Cloud Firestore and Firebase Realtime Database. We are looking for another database like Amazon DynamoDB; how much this decision can be efficient in terms of pricing and overhead?

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Detailed Comparison

Google Cloud Bigtable
Google Cloud Bigtable
Cloud Firestore
Cloud Firestore

Google Cloud Bigtable offers you a fast, fully managed, massively scalable NoSQL database service that's ideal for web, mobile, and Internet of Things applications requiring terabytes to petabytes of data. Unlike comparable market offerings, Cloud Bigtable doesn't require you to sacrifice speed, scale, or cost efficiency when your applications grow. Cloud Bigtable has been battle-tested at Google for more than 10 years—it's the database driving major applications such as Google Analytics and Gmail.

Cloud Firestore is a NoSQL document database that lets you easily store, sync, and query data for your mobile and web apps - at global scale.

Unmatched Performance: Single-digit millisecond latency and over 2X the performance per dollar of unmanaged NoSQL alternatives.;Open Source Interface: Because Cloud Bigtable is accessed through the HBase API, it is natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem and supports Google’s big data products. Additionally, data can be imported from or exported to existing HBase clusters through simple bulk ingestion tools using industry-standard formats.;Low Cost: By providing a fully managed service and exceptional efficiency, Cloud Bigtable’s total cost of ownership is less than half the cost of its direct competition.;Security: Cloud Bigtable is built with a replicated storage strategy, and all data is encrypted both in-flight and at rest.;Simplicity: Creating or reconfiguring a Cloud Bigtable cluster is done through a simple user interface and can be completed in less than 10 seconds. As data is put into Cloud Bigtable the backing storage scales automatically, so there’s no need to do complicated estimates of capacity requirements.;Maturity: Over the past 10+ years, Bigtable has driven Google’s most critical applications. In addition, the HBase API is a industry-standard interface for combined operational and analytical workloads.
Documents and collections with powerful querying;iOS, Android, and Web SDKs with offline data access;Real-time data synchronization;Automatic, multi-region data replication with strong consistency;Node, Python, Go, and Java server SDKs
Statistics
Stacks
173
Stacks
751
Followers
363
Followers
900
Votes
25
Votes
112
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 11
    High performance
  • 9
    Fully managed
  • 5
    High scalability
Pros
  • 15
    Cloud Storage
  • 15
    Easy to use
  • 12
    Easy setup
  • 12
    Realtime Database
  • 9
    Super fast
Cons
  • 8
    Doesn't support FullTextSearch natively
Integrations
Heroic
Heroic
Hadoop
Hadoop
Apache Spark
Apache Spark
Golang
Golang
Node.js
Node.js
Java
Java
Python
Python
Firebase
Firebase
Cloud Functions for Firebase
Cloud Functions for Firebase
Google Cloud Functions
Google Cloud Functions

What are some alternatives to Google Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Firestore?

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB

With it , you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service built for fast and predictable performance, high availability, elastic scaling, global distribution, and ease of development.

Cloudant

Cloudant

Cloudant’s distributed database as a service (DBaaS) allows developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing databases on their own.

Google Cloud Datastore

Google Cloud Datastore

Use a managed, NoSQL, schemaless database for storing non-relational data. Cloud Datastore automatically scales as you need it and supports transactions as well as robust, SQL-like queries.

CloudBoost

CloudBoost

CloudBoost.io is a database service for the “next web” - that not only does data-storage, but also search, real-time and a whole lot more which enables developers to build much richer apps with 50% less time saving them a ton of cost and helping them go to market much faster.

Firebase Realtime Database

Firebase Realtime Database

It is a cloud-hosted NoSQL database that lets you store and sync data between your users in realtime. Data is synced across all clients in realtime, and remains available when your app goes offline.

restdb.io

restdb.io

RestDB is a NoSql document oriented database cloud service. Data is accessed as JSON objects via HTTPS. This gives great flexibility, easy system integration and future compatibility.

Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB is a non-relational database service designed from the ground-up to give you the performance, scalability, and availability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads at scale. In Amazon DocumentDB, the storage and compute are decoupled, allowing each to scale independently, and you can increase the read capacity to millions of requests per second by adding up to 15 low latency read replicas in minutes, regardless of the size of your data.

Amazon SimpleDB

Amazon SimpleDB

Developers simply store and query data items via web services requests and Amazon SimpleDB does the rest. Behind the scenes, Amazon SimpleDB creates and manages multiple geographically distributed replicas of your data automatically to enable high availability and data durability. Amazon SimpleDB provides a simple web services interface to create and store multiple data sets, query your data easily, and return the results. Your data is automatically indexed, making it easy to quickly find the information that you need. There is no need to pre-define a schema or change a schema if new data is added later. And scale-out is as simple as creating new domains, rather than building out new servers.

Datomic Cloud

Datomic Cloud

A transactional database with a flexible data model, elastic scaling, and rich queries. Datomic is designed from the ground up to run on AWS. Datomic leverages AWS technology, including DynamoDB, S3, EFS, and CloudFormation to provide a fully integrated solution.

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