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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iowww.featurebase.comwww.hawkular.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.featurebase.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidensdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Molecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20132016201720142017
Current release2022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoGoJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL queriesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesno

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