DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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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	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Spotify

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2013

2014

2003

2013

2015

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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