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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgalaxybase.comwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司HarperDBSpotify
Initial release2013201720172014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20213.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemadynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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