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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HarperDB vs. MonetDB vs. Prometheus vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HarperDB vs. MonetDB vs. Prometheus vs. Yaacomo

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.harperdb.iowww.monetdb.orgprometheus.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBMonetDB BVQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132017200420152009
Current release3.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoNode.jsCGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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