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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 ElasticSearchA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperSpotifyQuestDB Technology Incinformationpartners gmbhApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132014201420152014
Current release1.02.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID for single-table writesmultiple readers, single writerACID
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.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBHeroicQuestDBsearchxmlTrafodion
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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