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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Stardog vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltopentsdb.netwww.stardog.comswaydb.simer.aupingcap.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.stardog.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsStardog-UnionSimer PlahaPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132011201020182016
Current release7.3.0, May 20208.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScalaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesnoyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGoErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handlersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication in HA-ClusternoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBOpenTSDBStardogSwayDBTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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