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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LokiJS vs. searchxml

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2017

2014

2015

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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.

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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