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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.enterprisedb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperEnterpriseDBKineticaMonetDB BVRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20132005201220041993
Current release14, December 20217.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC, C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding via remote tablesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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 RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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