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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolten.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20132016201420101999
Current release1.2, November 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaErlangC and Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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