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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DataFS vs. etcd vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.A distributed reliable key-value storeTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltnewdatabase.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
spotify.github.io/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperMobiland AGSpotifyIBM
Initial release2013201820141983 infohost version
Current release1.1.263, October 20223.4, August 201912.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnononoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnono, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes, watching key changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneProprietary Sharding systemShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
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 controlnoWindows-Profilenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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