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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dolt vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dolt vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.93
Rank#194  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comdocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDoltHub IncFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20132018202020172013
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releasenoyes, in Luano
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.depending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupnono

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