DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2006

2014

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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