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DBMS > BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application servermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachehughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsHughes Technologies
Initial release2013201019971994
Current release2018.1.4, May 20204.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoErlangC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
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 methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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