DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Realm

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

realm.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

realm.io/docs

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2013

2010

2015

2014

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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