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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTime Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#383  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperGoogleOpenNMS GroupFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2013201420142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release2.1.12, February 201710 R1, October 20188.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptJavaCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID infoMVCCyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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