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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. LevelDB vs. SQLite vs. VoltDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sqlite.org

www.voltdb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.voltdb.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VoltDB Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2011

2000

2010

2023

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

Access Control Lists

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