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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Quasardb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachequasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisInterSystemsquasardb
Initial release20132012200619972009
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232018.1.4, May 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojurePythonC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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