DBMS > BoltDB vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.harperdb.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

HarperDB

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2014

2009

2013

Current release

3.1, August 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

yes

via Elasticsearch

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 rights for users and roles

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