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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrocksdb.org
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.MicrosoftFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132002201719892013
Current release1.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 2018SQL Server 2022, November 20228.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in LuaTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodenoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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