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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Firebolt

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhouse
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.firebolt.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.firebolt.io
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncSoftmotionsElasticFirebolt Analytics Inc.
Initial release20132018201220102020
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++CJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyesdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, Groupsno

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