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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. TerarkDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.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 metricAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.49
Rank#79  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchcloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncElasticGoogleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132018201020082016
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, details hereno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesusing Google App Engineno
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesES-Hadoop Connectoryes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
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, allImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
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.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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