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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Citus vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Citus vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine vs. VoltDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.citusdata.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sadasengine.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SADAS s.r.l.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20132010201020062010
Current release8.1, December 20188.011.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoCErlangC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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