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DBMS > BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gridgain.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013200720172009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noErlang
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)online/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno
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 implementationsyesyes, using Riak Security
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