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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. LevelDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
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	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

galaxybase.com

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2017

2011

2000

2020

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.23, February 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

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-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Role-based access control

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