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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyMonetDB BV
Initial release20132012200820142004
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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