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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Titan

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 instanceGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132023201520162012
Current release1.0, March 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++C++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonoyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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