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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Spotify

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2014

2020

2018

1987

Current release

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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