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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperKineticaMonetDB BVRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132012200419932009
Current release7.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4-123.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++CErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
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 functionsyes, in SQL, C, RyesErlang
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesyesSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes, using Riak Security

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