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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DuckDB vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

2018

2008

2013

2001

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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