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DBMS > BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Trafodion

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanttrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFatCloudSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132012201420102014
Current release2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC#JavaErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernonoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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