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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. etcd vs. HugeGraph vs. Memcached vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed reliable key-value storeA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.memcached.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
hugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBaiduDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013201820032018
Current release3.4, August 20190.91.6.25, March 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoJavaCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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 indexesnonoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole-based access control

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