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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. GridGain vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphite.readthedocs.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisGridGain Systems, Inc.Spotify
Initial release20132017200620072014
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoPythonJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneyes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.noSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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