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DBMS > BoltDB vs. gStore vs. HarperDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. gStore vs. HarperDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.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.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeKey-value storeDocument store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolten.gstore.cnwww.harperdb.ioswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132016201720182019
Current release1.2, November 20233.1, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++Node.jsScalaClojure
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesCustom 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 clusternonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesAtomic execution of specific operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users and rolesno

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