DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Rackspace

Softmotions

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

JSON types

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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