DBMS > BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

1983

2005

2013

1998

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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 syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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