DBMS > BoltDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NSDb vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NSDb vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

nsdb.io

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2017

2000

2020

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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Market metrics

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