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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
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
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iowww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Facebook, Inc.Yandex
Initial release201320162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132019
Current release10 R1, October 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
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
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftyesActive-passive shard replication
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 integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoMVCCyesACID
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-standardnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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