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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tarantool

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sadasengine.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SADAS s.r.l.VK
Initial release2013201220062008
Current release8.02.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noLua, C and SQL stored procedures
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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