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

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comhazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockHazelcastSpotify
Initial release2013201220082014
Current release2.0, September 20195.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access control

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