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DBMS > BoltDB vs. chDB vs. DuckDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. chDB vs. DuckDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonchDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.64
Rank#227  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#338  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score6.71
Rank#51  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbduckdb.org
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.ioduckdb.org/­docs
Initial release201320232018
Current release1.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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