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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB

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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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Primary database model

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

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2013

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

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

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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