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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Coveo vs. Google BigQuery vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
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Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Coveo

Google

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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