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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. ITTIA vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ittia.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyITTIA L.L.C.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20131983201420071994
Current release19.4.1, November 20218.718.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoPHPC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesDatabase file passwordsno

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