DBMS > BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2013

1983

2014

2013

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a 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

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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