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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Coveo vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.coveo.com

www.kinetica.com

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Coveo

Kinetica

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2012

2011

2000

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.23, February 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

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

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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