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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDFox vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

hbase.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2007

2017

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

14.1, August 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

configurable

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Roles, resources, and access types

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