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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

greptime.com

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2022

2017

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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