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  5. MapDB vs VoltDB

MapDB vs VoltDB

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Overview

VoltDB
VoltDB
Stacks18
Followers72
Votes18
MapDB
MapDB
Stacks8
Followers49
Votes0

VoltDB vs MapDB: What are the differences?

What is VoltDB? In-memory relational DBMS capable of supporting millions of database operations per second. VoltDB is a fundamental redesign of the RDBMS that provides unparalleled performance and scalability on bare-metal, virtualized and cloud infrastructures. VoltDB is a modern in-memory architecture that supports both SQL + Java with data durability and fault tolerance.

What is MapDB? Concurrent Maps, Sets and Queues backed by disk storage or off-heap-memory. MapDB provides Java Maps, Sets, Lists, Queues and other collections backed by off-heap or on-disk storage. It is a hybrid between java collection framework and embedded database engine. It is free and open-source under Apache license.

VoltDB and MapDB can be primarily classified as "In-Memory Databases" tools.

Some of the features offered by VoltDB are:

  • In-Memory Performance with On-Disk Durability
  • Transparent Scalability with Data Consistency
  • NewSQL – All the benefits of SQL with Unlimited Scalability

On the other hand, MapDB provides the following key features:

  • Concurrency
  • Writing database
  • Code duplication and not invented here

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Detailed Comparison

VoltDB
VoltDB
MapDB
MapDB

VoltDB is a fundamental redesign of the RDBMS that provides unparalleled performance and scalability on bare-metal, virtualized and cloud infrastructures. VoltDB is a modern in-memory architecture that supports both SQL + Java with data durability and fault tolerance.

MapDB provides Java Maps, Sets, Lists, Queues and other collections backed by off-heap or on-disk storage. It is a hybrid between java collection framework and embedded database engine. It is free and open-source under Apache license.

In-Memory Performance with On-Disk Durability;Transparent Scalability with Data Consistency;NewSQL – All the benefits of SQL with Unlimited Scalability;JSON Support for Agile Development;ACID Compliant Transactions;Export Data to OLAP Stores and Data Warehouses
Concurrency; Writing database; Code duplication and not invented here; Does not integrate with default tools and defacto standards; Did not follow test driven development; Not enough performance testing. ...
Statistics
Stacks
18
Stacks
8
Followers
72
Followers
49
Votes
18
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 5
    SQL + Java
  • 4
    A brainchild of Michael Stonebraker
  • 4
    In-memory database
  • 3
    Very Fast
  • 2
    NewSQL
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What are some alternatives to VoltDB, MapDB?

Redis

Redis

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

dbForge Studio for MySQL

dbForge Studio for MySQL

It is the universal MySQL and MariaDB client for database management, administration and development. With the help of this intelligent MySQL client the work with data and code has become easier and more convenient. This tool provides utilities to compare, synchronize, and backup MySQL databases with scheduling, and gives possibility to analyze and report MySQL tables data.

dbForge Studio for Oracle

dbForge Studio for Oracle

It is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) which helps Oracle SQL developers to increase PL/SQL coding speed, provides versatile data editing tools for managing in-database and external data.

dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

It is a GUI tool for database development and management. The IDE for PostgreSQL allows users to create, develop, and execute queries, edit and adjust the code to their requirements in a convenient and user-friendly interface.

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

It is a powerful IDE for SQL Server management, administration, development, data reporting and analysis. The tool will help SQL developers to manage databases, version-control database changes in popular source control systems, speed up routine tasks, as well, as to make complex database changes.

Liquibase

Liquibase

Liquibase is th leading open-source tool for database schema change management. Liquibase helps teams track, version, and deploy database schema and logic changes so they can automate their database code process with their app code process.

Sequel Pro

Sequel Pro

Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

DBeaver

DBeaver

It is a free multi-platform database tool for developers, SQL programmers, database administrators and analysts. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc.

dbForge SQL Complete

dbForge SQL Complete

It is an IntelliSense add-in for SQL Server Management Studio, designed to provide the fastest T-SQL query typing ever possible.

Hazelcast

Hazelcast

With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution.

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