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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NuoDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBMDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2013200220172013
Current release1.1, February 20172.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesJava, SQL
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodenoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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