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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SpotifyActian CorporationSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2013201220141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2006
Current release11.2, May 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesIngres Replicatornone
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.nononoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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