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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseopentsdb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsAlex Kashirin
Initial release20132014201020112020
Current releaseV120.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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