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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
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 ElasticSearchJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial 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
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpouchdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyApache Software FoundationMireo
Initial release20132006201420122020
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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 Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes

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