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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch

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Name	BoltDB  Xexclude from comparison	Elasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An embedded key-value store for Go.	A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database model	Key-value store	Search engine
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.57 Rank #224   Overall #34   Key-value stores	Score 154.33 Rank #8   Overall #1   Search engines
Website	github.com/­boltdb/­bolt	www.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentation		www.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
Developer		Elastic
Initial release	2013	2010
Current release		7.8.0, June 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT License	Open Source Elastic License
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no
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Implementation language	Go	Java
Server operating systems	BSD Linux OS X Solaris Windows	All OS with a Java VM
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	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.	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes All search fields are automatically indexed
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods		Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages	Go	.Net Groovy Community Contributed Clients Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes by using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	ES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Eventual Consistency Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	Memcached and Redis integration
User concepts Access control	no
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