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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Sqrrl

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent StoreTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.eventstore.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20132012201720132012
Current release21.2, February 2021V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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