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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperChris DavisCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Mireo
Initial release20132006201720132020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luanono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoyes

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