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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. gStore vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.dolphindb.com

en.gstore.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2018

2016

2014

2013

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.2, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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