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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrientDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchorientdb.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20132014200220152010
Current release4.0V13.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava, Javascript
TriggersnonononoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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