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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. SpaceTime

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyCirconus LLC.Mireo
Initial release20132006201420172020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes

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