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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.74
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Rank	#106	Overall
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Rank	#242	Overall
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Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

2022

2013

Current release

1.2, September 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and Roles

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