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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGigaspaces TechnologiesSpotify
Initial release2013202320002014
Current release1.0, March 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++Java, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationRole-based access control

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