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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GeoSpockSpotify
Initial release2013201220172014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsnono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDnono
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per table

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