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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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 durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperCognitectSpotifyObjectBox Limited
Initial release2013201220142017
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
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 peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes
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