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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Geode vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.76
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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

geode.apache.org

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2013

2002

2013

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

yes

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

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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