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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmemgraph.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmemgraph.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperSpotifyMemgraph LtdAlex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132014201720202018
Current release0.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
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 Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication using RAFTJournaling Streams
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsRole-based access control
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BoltDBHeroicMemgraphSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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