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DBMS > BoltDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Kinetica vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Kinetica vs. Titan

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltboilerbay.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.KineticaAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2013200220122012
Current release4.07.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC, C++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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