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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. openGemini vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
rethinkdb.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.opengemini.org/­guiderethinkdb.com/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyHuawei and openGemini communityThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20132014202220092013
Current release1.1, July 20232.4.1, August 20209.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnononoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoAtomic single-document operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators and common users accountsyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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