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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. Trafodion

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBMRocksetApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132014201320192014
Current release2.7.6, April 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoGoC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInfluxDBRocksetTrafodion
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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