DBMS > BoltDB vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
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Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

ignite.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Embarcadero

Kyligence, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

1984

2016

2013

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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