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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperKineticaOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013201220092023
Current release7.1, August 20213.2.0, December 20221.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC, C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes, using Riak SecurityRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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