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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Trafodion

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kyligence, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132008201020162014
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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