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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpaceTime

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisOracleMireo
Initial release20132012200620072020
Current release14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, with selectable consistency levelReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
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
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes

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