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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. VoltDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 simplicityDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperChris DavisCirconus LLC.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2013200620172010
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201811.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC and C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in LuaJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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