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

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 ElasticSearchExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicobjectbox.iorockset.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.iodocs.rockset.com
DeveloperSpotifyObjectBox LimitedRocksetTeradata
Initial release20132014201720192005
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
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 datenoyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoR packages
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesyes 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 methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
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 controlnoyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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