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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifycurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20132015198320142011
Current release24.1.0, May 202419.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
PHPErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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