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DBMS > BoltDB vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.
Initial release201320132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132017
Current release1.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 20188.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoMVCCyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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