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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GBase vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GBase vs. IRONdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.58
Rank#235  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#142  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gbase.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Circonus LLC.
Initial release201320042017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in Lua
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesno

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