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

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent StoreTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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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
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.eventstore.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132012201720132022
Current release21.2, February 2021V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesACID
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 controlnononoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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