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DBMS > BoltDB vs. KairosDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. KairosDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbterminusdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013201320182009
Current release1.2.2, November 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlRole-based access controlno

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