DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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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

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/hana

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Spotify

SAP

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2010

2020

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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