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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.esgyn.cngeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperEsgynGeoSpockSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2013201520142010
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++, JavaJava, JavascriptJavaErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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