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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ingres vs. LMDB vs. MaxDB vs. QuestDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Well established RDBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbmaxdb.sap.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.lmdb.tech/­docmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationSymasSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201119842014
Current release11.2, May 20220.9.32, January 20247.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCCC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBIngresLMDBMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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