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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsCloud-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 ElasticSearchAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroicmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SpotifyMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20132009201220142017
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesGoJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyesnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions
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BoltDBEhcacheFirebase Realtime DatabaseHeroicMemgraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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