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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. VelocityDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLiteA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperRocksetAlessandro FurieriVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132013201920082011
Current release2.7.6, April 20245.0.0, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++C++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedserver-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingyesyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST.Net
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnononoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBInfluxDBRocksetSpatiaLiteVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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