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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. RavenDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. RavenDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
ravendb.net
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyObjectBox LimitedHibernating RhinosTeradata
Initial release20132014201720102005
Current release4.0 (May 2024)5.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnoyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesR packages
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
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 controlnoyesAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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