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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Heroic vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.starrocks.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAsthon TateSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Simer Plaha
Initial release20131979201420202018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, JavaScala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesGodBase proprietary IDEJavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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