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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Ignite vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ignite vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltignite.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.netsql.js.org
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docskairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132015201320052012
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.61.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++, Java, .NetJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno 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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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