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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. SQLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

hazelcast.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sqlite.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

doc.nuodb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2013

2000

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

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++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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