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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireo
Initial release20132006201420092020
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
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 Elasticsearchrestrictedno
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 API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesselectable replication factorReal-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 integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, using Riak Securityyes

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