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DBMS > BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cockroachlabs.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperCockroach LabsGeoSpockSpotify
Initial release201320152014
Current release23.1.1, May 20232.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoGoJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
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 RAFTAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 controlAccess rights for users can be defined per table

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