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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. TerarkDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  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 metricLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA 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 engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncElasticEmbarcaderoByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132018201019842016
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20228.6, January 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
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 servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-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.nononono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesno
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesES-Hadoop Connectornono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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 integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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