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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted in-memory data gridWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthazelcast.comhbase.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldoc.nuodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132008200820132009
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJava, SQLErlang
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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 controlnoRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes, using Riak Security

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