DBMS > BoltDB vs. H2 vs. RocksDB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. RocksDB vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.h2database.com

rocksdb.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Facebook, Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

2013

2022

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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