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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Spotify

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2014

2011

2013

2020

Current release

1.23, February 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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