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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. NuoDB vs. SQLite vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#230	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	50.58
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#205	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS

Score	99.49
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sqlite.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.nuodb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2010

2013

2000

2009

Current release

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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