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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrocksdb.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGeoSpockSpotifyFacebook, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201420132012
Current release2.0, September 20198.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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