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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Heroic vs. Splice Machine

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 durabilitydBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroicsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateSpotifySplice Machine
Initial release20132012197920142014
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023dBASE 2019, 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infoJava
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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