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DBMS > BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebolt vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebolt vs. Graphite

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.firebolt.iographite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperFatCloudGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebolt Analytics Inc.Chris Davis
Initial release20132012201220202006
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageGoC#Python
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesNumeric data only
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesGoC#Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factordepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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