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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hazelcast vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthazelcast.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHazelcastHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132008201620122018
Current release5.3.6, November 20235.10, January 20227.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++ and CUDAC, C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access control

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