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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 SQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyHughes TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20132014199420132019
Current release4.4, October 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access control

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