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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. Titan vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. Titan vs. YDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyTobias OetikerAurelius, owned by DataStaxYandex
Initial release20132014199920122019
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesGoC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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