DBMS > BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.mcobject.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

McObject

Google

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2001

2017

2015

2013

Current release

8.2, 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual 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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

via In-Memory Engine

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.

Access rights for users and roles

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