DBMS > BoltDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.gigaspaces.com

www.hawkular.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Community supported by Red Hat

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

2014

2013

Current release

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

ACID

yes

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

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