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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. Riak KV vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. Riak KV vs. XTDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132009201720092019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20160.6.3, February 20233.2.0, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaErlangClojure
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesErlangno
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelyesselectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
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 persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes, 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes, using Riak Security

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