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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. Titan

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyTobias OetikerAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132008201419992012
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
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 datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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