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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 vs. MonetDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 vs. MonetDB vs. STSdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA relational database management system that stores data in columnsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.monetdb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperSpotifyIBMMonetDB BVSTS Soft SC
Initial release201320141983 infohost version20042011
Current release12.1, October 2016Dec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++CC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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