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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Vitess

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sequoiadb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyHughes TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20132014199420132013
Current release4.4, October 202115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoDocument is locked during a transactionACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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