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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS for high security requirementsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#368  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comlinter.ruoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperKineticarelex.ruTobias OetikerTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132012199019991987
Current release7.1, August 20211.8.0, 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++C and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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