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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JanusGraph vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JanusGraph vs. Kdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017High performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjanusgraph.orgkx.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.janusgraph.orgcode.kx.com
DeveloperSpotifyLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release2013201420172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release0.6.3, February 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaq
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverrights management via user accounts
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BoltDBHeroicJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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