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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LevelDB vs. Splice Machine vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LevelDB vs. Splice Machine vs. TerarkDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­leveldbsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGoogleGoogleSplice MachineByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132017201120142016
Current release1.23, February 20213.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud DataflownoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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.noAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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