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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. RethinkDB vs. SQLite

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgrethinkdb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2013200820092000
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.4.1, August 20203.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)Atomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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