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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 ElasticSearchScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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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
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicterminusdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.SpotifyDataChemist Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20132016201420182001
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaProlog, RustC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftyesJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesRole-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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