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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. RocksDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2

rocksdb.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Chris Davis

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2006

1983

host version

2013

2016

Current release

12.1, October 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

C++ API
Java API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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