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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
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 databaseAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-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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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.couchbase.commemgraph.comrocksdb.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.commemgraph.com/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.Memgraph LtdFacebook, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132011201720132012
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20239.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++, Go and ErlangC and C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
C++ API
Java API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++nono
Triggersnoyes infovia the TAP protocolno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic ShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoEphemeral bucketsyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Users, roles and permissionsnono
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BoltDBCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseMemgraphRocksDBSQL.JS
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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