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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. Dolt vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.couchbase.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.dolthub.com

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

DoltHub Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2011

2018

2008

2016

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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