DBMS > BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. eXtremeDB vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. eXtremeDB vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

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

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.mcobject.com

rocksdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Elastic

McObject

Facebook, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2013

2010

2001

2013

2003

Current release

8.6, January 2023

8.2, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
» more

Competitive advantages

eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
» more

Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
» more

Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
» more

Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.