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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. XTDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisMonetDB BVJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2013200620042019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonCClojure
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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