DBMS > BoltDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.postgresql.fastware.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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Key customers

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