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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. IRONdb vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory caching system

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cachelot.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

machbase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

machbase.com/dbms

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Machbase

Initial release

2013

2015

2017

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

V8.0, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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