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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

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

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

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ehcache.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2009

2013

2019

2016

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JCache

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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