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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. LMDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. LMDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperChris DavisSymasMireoSimer Plaha
Initial release20132006201120202018
Current release0.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonCC++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesno
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 SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyesno

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