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DBMS > BoltDB vs. chDB vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. chDB vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonchDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbwww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.org
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20132023200720172013
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial, open sourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC and C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luano
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
nono

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