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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Citus vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Citus vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. STSdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.citusdata.comwww.gbase.cngeospock.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockSTS Soft SC
Initial release2013201020042011
Current release8.1, December 2018GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoCC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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