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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. Transbase vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. Transbase vs. VoltDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 ElasticSearchA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifyTransaction Software GmbHVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20132023201419872010
Current release1.0, March 2023Transbase 8.3, 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC and C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyesJava
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoyesACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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