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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
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 CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013200820102015
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROnono
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
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 infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
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
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
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 possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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