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Name

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)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ehcache.org

rocksdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2009

2013

1998

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Multi-source replication
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)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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