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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. Firebolt vs. HBase vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfauna.comwww.firebolt.iohbase.apache.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132014202020082013
Current release2.3.4, January 20218.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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