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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.risingwave.com/­databaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.RisingWave LabsFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132020201720222013
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.2, September 20239.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++RustC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsStandard SQL-types and JSONno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in LuaUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers and Rolesno

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