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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20132012201720131998
Current release1.0.7180, July 2024V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, in LuanoPL/SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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