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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hypertable vs. LeanXcale vs. mSQL vs. RavenDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#230	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#285	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#160	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#99	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.leanxcale.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

LeanXcale

Hughes Technologies

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2013

2009

2015

1994

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.4, October 2021

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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