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

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  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 distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneEmbeddable 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 storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
rocksdb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopensearch.org/­docs/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Amazon Web ServicesFacebook, Inc.Mireo
Initial release20132017202120132020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.5.0, January 20239.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luayesnono
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardinghorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyesno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBIRONdbOpenSearchRocksDBSpaceTime
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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