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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.62
Rank#230  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score7.10
Rank#47  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#326  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2database.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperThomas MuellerDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201320052018
Current release2.2.220, July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoJavaJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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