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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM vs. Tigris

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20132008201219932022
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 20213.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles

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