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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperSpotifyAlex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20132014202020182001
Current release0.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Prolog, RustC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC++JavaScript
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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