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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. GridDB vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfauna.comgriddb.netorientdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.griddb.netwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Toshiba CorporationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSiteWhere
Initial release20132014201320102010
Current release5.1, August 20223.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoScalaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")predefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava, Javascript
TriggersnonoyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID at container levelACIDno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBGridDBOrientDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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