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DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperRackspaceDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHypertable Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132013202320092009
Current release1.0, March 20230.9.8.11, March 20163.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuanoErlang
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoPassword-based authenticationnoyes, using Riak Security

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