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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20132012202020172013
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lesshostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in Luano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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