DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Ignite vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Ignite vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

ignite.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2014

2015

1994

2013

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple password-based access control

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