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

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

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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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2006

2022

2013

2020

Current release

1.2, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Users and Roles

yes

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