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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HyperSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HyperSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. SQream DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitessa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthsqldb.orgplanetscale.comsqream.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperPlanetScaleSQream Technologies
Initial release2013200120202017
Current release2.7.2, June 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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