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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSSpotifyKinetica
Initial release20132008201320142012
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles on table level

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