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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Kdb vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kdb vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.High performance Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltkx.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationcode.kx.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpenNMS GroupOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current release3.6, May 201810 R1, October 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoqJavaCErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID infoMVCCno
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security
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BoltDBKdbNewtsPostgres-XLRiak KV
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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