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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrocksdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132010201119922013
Current release1.23, February 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20198.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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