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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

2004

2005

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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