DBMS > BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

IBM

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2017

1984

2013

Current release

2.0

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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