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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory caching systemFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented 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
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcachelot.iowww.firebirdsql.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFirebird FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2011
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
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++C#
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
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
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
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLno
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication
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
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
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptBased on Windows Authentication

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