DBMS > BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial 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	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

galaxybase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

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

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Initial release

2013

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2010

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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