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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gridgain.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.MonetDB BVinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2013200720042015
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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