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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDFox vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDFox vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperKineticaOxford Semantic TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132012201719872011
Current release7.1, August 20216.0, Septermber 2022Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 RAMyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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