DBMS > BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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.

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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

fauna.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2013

Current release

6.0, February 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Identity management, authentication, and 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.

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