DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2database.com

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Thomas Mueller

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2005

2013

2003

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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