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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. OpenQM vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial 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	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.kinetica.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Kinetica

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2012

1999

1993

2000

Current release

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2021

3.4-12

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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