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DBMS > BoltDB vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Mireo
Initial release20132002201720132020
Current release4.0V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luanono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoyesno
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoyes

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