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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrethinkdb.comrocksdb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicrethinkdb.com/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Facebook, Inc.Rockset
Initial release20132014200920132019
Current release2.4.1, August 20209.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynodynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC 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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoAtomic single-document operationsyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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