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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. TerarkDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201620142016
Current release2.0, September 20195.10, January 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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