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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed reliable key-value storeSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
geospock.comhazelcast.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
hazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeoSpockHazelcast
Initial release201320092008
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.4, August 20192.0, September 20195.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaGoJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesnononotemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJCachegRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, watching key changesnoyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access control

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