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DBMS > BoltDB vs. etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Netezza

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed reliable key-value storeCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.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.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­databasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleIBM
Initial release2013201220172000
Current release3.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedhostedLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesyesACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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