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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. Dragonfly vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. Dragonfly vs. Yaacomo

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn 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 databaseA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score16.74
Rank#33  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.couchbase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2013201120232009
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++, Go and ErlangC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++Lua
Triggersnoyes infovia the TAP protocolpublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic Shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoEphemeral bucketsyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Password-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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