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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KeyDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KeyDB vs. Prometheus

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
prometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.keydb.devprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release20132000201420192015
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesNumeric data only
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoLuano
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnosimple password-based access control and ACLno

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