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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dolt vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. QuestDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDoltHub IncSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20132018201420152014
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGoAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releasenonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID for single-table writes
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.nononoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startuprights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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