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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.SpotifyRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132016201419932001
Current release3.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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