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

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20132020201720132020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnono
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIC++ 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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luanono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
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 nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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