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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LMDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LMDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Transbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
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
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSpotifySymasOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132014201119841987
Current release0.9.32, January 20247.4.1.1, 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
HP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDyes, on a single nodeyes
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.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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