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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Milvus vs. RocksDB vs. VoltDB

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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 DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2019

2013

2010

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Vector, Numeric and String

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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