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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. HBase vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.mcobject.com

hbase.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

McObject

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2001

2008

1984

2013

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

support of XML interfaces available

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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