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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kinetica.com

rocksdb.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Kinetica

Facebook, Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2013

2018

2012

2013

2016

Current release

0.8, December 2018

7.1, August 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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