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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. InfinityDB vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store
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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
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Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Boiler Bay Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2013

2008

2002

2013

2022

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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