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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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.Spatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSSpotify
Initial release2013201220132014
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2no
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rulesyes infobased on H2

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