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DBMS > BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchRDBMS for high security requirementsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroiclinter.ruwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncSpotifyrelex.ru
Initial release20132018201419902014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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