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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Spotify

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2001

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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