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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Citus vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Citus vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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 PostgreSQLA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#286  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.citusdata.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.leanxcale.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperCirconus LLC.LeanXcaleFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132010201720152013
Current release8.1, December 2018V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes, in Luano
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDyes
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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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