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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.graphengine.iowww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperMicrosoftCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2013201020142008
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGo.NET and CJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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