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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iowww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Facebook, Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release201320162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132020
Current release10 R1, October 20189.4.0, June 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoCC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftyes
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 integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoMVCCyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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