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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. Transbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS for high security requirementsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.kinetica.comlinter.ruwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCognitectKineticarelex.ruTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132012201219901987
Current release1.0.7075, December 20237.1, August 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC, C++C and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDyes
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
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 developmentyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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