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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Heroic vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Heroic vs. Transbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperExasolGoogleSpotifyTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132000201720141987
Current releaseTransbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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