DBMS > BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.geomesa.org

www.mysql.com

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

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

CCRi and others

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2014

1995

2020

2016

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

8.3.0, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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