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DBMS > BoltDB vs. H2 vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2database.comwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperThomas MuellerHarperDBSpotify
Initial release2013200520172014
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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