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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. mSQL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperSoftmotionsElasticSpotifyHughes Technologies
Initial release20132012201020141994
Current release8.6, January 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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 infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesno
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.noMemcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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