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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperRackspaceCognitectSpotifyOracle
Initial release20132013201220142011
Current release1.0.6735, June 202323.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ClojureJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesoptional
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles

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