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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA distributed reliable key-value storeCloud 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.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#229  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score15.63
Rank#35  Overall
#5  Document stores
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.06
Rank#47  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score6.92
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.couchbase.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCouchbase, Inc.Google
Initial release2013201320112017
Current release15585Server: 7.6, March 2024; Mobile: 3.3, August 2024; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), September 20243.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++, Go and ErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++noyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesnoyes infovia the TAP protocolyes, watching key changesyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoEphemeral bucketsno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.noAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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