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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. FileMaker vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ehcache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

1983

2010

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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