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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen Source Time Series DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsiridb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.siridb.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesCesbitSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20132014200920172014
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak Securitysimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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