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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Cloud 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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/spotify/heroic

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

Spotify

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2009

2017

2014

2009

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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