DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/spotify/heroic

objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Google

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2014

2017

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

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.

yes

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