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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. QuestDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperIBMGoogleApache Software FoundationQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20132014201420122014
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnoView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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BoltDBIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBLovefieldPouchDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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