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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20132016198919842013
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20227.4.1.1, 20219.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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