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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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 instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifycurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2013202320142011
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet 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
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationno

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