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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory caching systemDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcachelot.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Facebook, Inc.
Initial release2013201520102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release10 R1, October 20188.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++ErlangCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoMVCCyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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