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

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

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.firebolt.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2020

2017

2013

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.