DBMS > BoltDB vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. OpenMLDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. OpenMLDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

google.github.io/lovefield

openmldb.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Google

4 Paradigm Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

2014

2020

2013

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2024-2 February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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