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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HarperDB vs. Hypertable vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HarperDB vs. Hypertable vs. SwayDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeKey-value store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.harperdb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBHypertable Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2013201720092018
Current release3.1, August 20210.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoNode.jsC++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo.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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of specific operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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