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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorespotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGoogleSpotifyBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20132017201419992014
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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