DBMS > BoltDB vs. Databend vs. Greenplum vs. HarperDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Databend vs. Greenplum vs. HarperDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

greenplum.org

www.harperdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

docs.greenplum.org

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Databend Labs

Pivotal Software Inc.

HarperDB

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2021

2005

2017

2013

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

7.0.0, September 2023

3.1, August 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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