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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. LeanXcale vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 metricA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial 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
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.leanxcale.comwww.monetdb.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperElasticLeanXcaleMonetDB BVSimer Plaha
Initial release20132010201520042018
Current release8.6, January 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaCScala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infothrough Apache Derbyyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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