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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrocksdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperSpotifyIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Facebook, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20132014200520132013
Current release8.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJavaScript
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDyesDocument is locked during a transaction
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.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnosimple password-based access control

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