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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hive vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.claris.com/filemaker

hive.apache.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1983

2012

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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