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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. StarRocks vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. StarRocks vs. TypeDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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 DorisTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.starrocks.iotypedb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Vaticle
Initial release2013201420202016
Current release2.5.3, March 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesGoJavaAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Sharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BoltDBHeroicStarRocksTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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