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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB vs. openGemini vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB vs. openGemini vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 HadoopEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.opengemini.org/­guidedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperHypertable Inc.GoogleHuawei and openGemini communityTimescale
Initial release20132009201120222017
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.23, February 20211.1, July 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++GoC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAdministrators and common users accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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