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DBMS > BoltDB vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA relational database management system that stores data in columnsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score6.87
Rank#55  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.99
Rank#195  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2database.comhazelcast.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperThomas MuellerHazelcastMonetDB BVDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20132005200820042013
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes, in SQL, C, RJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding via remote tablesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated Mapnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoMVCC
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.noyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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