DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Google

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2020

2008

2017

2013

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

text, numeric, histograms

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication using Paxos

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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