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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132008201620122018
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 20227.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++ and CUDAC, C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access control

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