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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Robert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2013201220122009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC#Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyesACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole based authorizationno

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