DBMS > BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory caching system

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

Current release

3.3 July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC
ODBC

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

yes

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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