DBMS > BoltDB vs. Derby vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Derby vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2013

1997

1984

2013

2023

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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