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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Sqrrl

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time 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 HadoopAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsqrrl.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperCCRi and othersSpotifyHypertable Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20132014201420092012
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoScalaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoAtomic 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.nodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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