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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. RDF4J

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. 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 BigTableA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opentsdb.netrdf4j.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetCirconus LLC.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20132008201720112004
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in Luanoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonono

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