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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Titan vs. YugabyteDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikidocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaAurelius, owned by DataStaxYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20132016201220122017
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 20212.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAC, C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backendsHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes
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BoltDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KineticaTitanYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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