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DBMS > BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL vs. SQream DB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL vs. SQream DB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.sqream.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Hughes TechnologiesSQream TechnologiesTeradata
Initial release20132017199420172005
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.4, October 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanouser defined functions in PythonR packages
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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