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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
RDF store
Document store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltmanticoresearch.comswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.compingcap.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperManticore SoftwareSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132017201820182016
Current release6.0, February 202311.0.0, January 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++ScalaProlog, RustGo, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGoElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneJournaling StreamsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBManticore SearchSwayDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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