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DBMS > BoltDB vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. Memcached vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. Memcached vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed reliable key-value storeGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.gridgain.comwww.memcached.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013200720032018
Current release3.4, August 2019GridGain 8.5.11.6.25, March 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJava, C++, .NetCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes (replicated cache)none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole-based access control

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