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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. FoundationDB vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. FoundationDB vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCloudflareFoundationDBOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release20132018201320092020
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.2.0, December 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonono infosome layers support typingno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
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 controlnonoyes, using Riak Security

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