DBMS > BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

galaxybase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2017

2013

2014

2020

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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