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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Altibase

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1999

2013

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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