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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Realm vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbrealm.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­docrealm.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperEmbarcaderoSymasRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Timescale
Initial release20131984201120142017
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20190.9.32, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCCC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.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
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsnonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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 integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.noyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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