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DBMS > BoltDB vs. etcd vs. Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. etcd vs. Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed reliable key-value storeHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.firebolt.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.firebolt.iospotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.SpotifyHypertable Inc.
Initial release2013202020142009
Current release3.4, August 20190.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on storage layeryesselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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