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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Realm

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comrealm.io
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20132008201320122014
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.2.2, November 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes

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