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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. Realm vs. TerarkDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comrealm.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comrealm.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperKineticaRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201220142016
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version 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++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesno

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