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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebolt vs. Geode vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.firebolt.io

geode.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

geode.apache.org/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2020

2002

2000

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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