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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Datomic vs. Hazelcast vs. MaxDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA widely adopted in-memory data gridA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.datomic.comhazelcast.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.datomic.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperDataStaxCognitectHazelcastSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20132011201220081984
Current release6.8, April 20201.0.7075, December 20235.3.6, November 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava, ClojureJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
RESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes
TriggersnoyesBy using transaction functionsyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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