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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2013198420052009
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
TriggersnoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change Viewsyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissions

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