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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. SpaceTime

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperElasticFoundationDBChris DavisMireo
Initial release20132010201320062020
Current release8.6, January 20236.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++PythonC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlynoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes

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