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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ignite vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltignite.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.netterminusdb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docskairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132015201320052018
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.61.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++, Java, .NetJavaCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access control

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