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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. SpaceTime

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
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 WhisperSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisMireo
Initial release2013201220062020
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojurePythonC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes

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