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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. KeyDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2019

2013

2018

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Role-based access control

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