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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Citus vs. ITTIA vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.citusdata.com

www.ittia.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

2007

2013

Current release

8.1, December 2018

8.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

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

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Database file passwords

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