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DBMS > BoltDB vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperThomas MuellerSpotifyHypertable Inc.
Initial release2013200520142009
Current release2.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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