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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

nsdb.io/Architecture

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Community supported by Red Hat

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2002

2014

2017

2011

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights per client and object definable

Based on Windows Authentication

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