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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. PouchDB 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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.claris.com/filemaker

kx.com

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

code.kx.com

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1983

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2012

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.6, May 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

rights management via user accounts

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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