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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmachbase.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmachbase.com/­dbmswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyMachbaseOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132014201320092013
Current releaseV8.0, August 20233.2.0, December 20228.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCErlangC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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 Elasticsearchyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes, using Riak Securityno

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