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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2013

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

simple password-based access control

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