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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA relational database management system that stores data in columnsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyMonetDB BVSiteWhereSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132014200420102011
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCJavaC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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