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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. KeyDB vs. Titan

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#205  Overall
#30  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2013201420192012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuayes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access control and ACLUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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