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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

kx.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.6, May 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

rights management via user accounts

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