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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorespotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogleSpotifyDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132017201420142018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
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
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory journaling
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.noRole-based access control

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