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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. mSQL vs. NuoDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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 interfacemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicboilerbay.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperSpotifyBoiler Bay Inc.Hughes TechnologiesDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20132014200219942013
Current release4.04.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
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 SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
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)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava, SQL
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes infoMVCC
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.nonononoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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