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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. QuestDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory caching systemFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcachelot.iowww.firebirdsql.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBCachelot.ioFirebirdQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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