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DBMS > BoltDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2013201720172008
Current release2022, May 20222.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes
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 datayesyesyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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