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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value 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

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2014

2017

2013

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

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

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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