DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Spotify

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2013

2014

1994

2013

2010

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

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

yes

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