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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kdb vs. mSQL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performance Time Series DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantkx.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantcode.kx.com
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcHughes Technologies
Initial release2013201420102000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031994
Current release3.6, May 20184.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangqC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (q)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesno
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsno
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BoltDBHeroicIBM CloudantKdbmSQL infoMini SQL
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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