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DBMS > BoltDB vs. KeyDB vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
rocksdb.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Facebook, Inc.Yandex
Initial release2013201920132019
Current release9.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoC++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesGoC
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access control and ACLnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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