DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL

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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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Spotify

Google

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

2014

2016

1994

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

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