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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroicwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SpotifyMonetDB BV
Initial release20132012201220142004
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lesshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in SQL, C, R
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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