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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Heroic vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Heroic vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.heavy.aispotify.github.io/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.Spotify
Initial release20132017201620142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release5.10, January 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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