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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchServerless Time Series DBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichyprcubd.com (offline)www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperSpotifyHyprcubd, Inc.InterSystemsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release2013201419971999
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC and Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnotoken accessAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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