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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 ElasticSearchDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpaceTime 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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquasar.aiwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyquasardbMireo
Initial release20132006201420092020
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageA 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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes

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