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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201720132012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20188.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
JavaScript 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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
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 nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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