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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  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.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.enterprisedb.comrocksdb.orgwww.snowflake.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperEnterpriseDBFacebook, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20132005201320142020
Current release14, December 20218.11.4, April 20242.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioningyeshorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyesACIDno
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.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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