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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. Trino

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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

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)

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

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Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2000

2014

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

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

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

depending on connected data-source

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
Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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