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DBMS > BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. TigerGraph

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Spotify
Initial release20131983201220142017
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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