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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2 vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerSTS Soft SCSurrealDB LtdAlex Kashirin
Initial release20132005201120222020
Current release2.2.220, July 20234.0.8, September 2015v1.1.1, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC#RustC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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