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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperEnterpriseDBObjectBox LimitedSimer Plaha
Initial release2013200520172018
Current release14, December 20214.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesno
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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