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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSpotifyDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013201420012018
Current release2.7.2, June 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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