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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. LMDB vs. mSQL vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry 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.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperSymasHughes TechnologiesRocksetTobias Oetiker
Initial release20132011199420191999
Current release0.9.32, January 20244.4, October 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoCCC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingNumeric data only
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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