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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. Sqrrl

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gbase.cngeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsqrrl.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20132004200220142012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoC#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyes, on a single nodenoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights per client and object definableCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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