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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. mSQL vs. StarRocks

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyHughes TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20132007201419942020
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.14.4, October 20212.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetJavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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