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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DuckDB vs. FileMaker vs. gStore vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltduckdb.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakeren.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotify
Initial release20132018198320162014
Current release1.0.0, June 202419.4.1, November 20211.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
PHPC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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