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DBMS > BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. YDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. YDB vs. YottaDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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)A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible APIA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
yottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiydb.tech/­en/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.YandexYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20132017201320192001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesno
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 indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language (YQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesActive-passive shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud usersUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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