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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. HBase vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.enterprisedb.comhbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperEnterpriseDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2013200520082010
Current release14, December 20212.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCJavaErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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