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DBMS > BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltmaxdb.sap.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MonetDB BVAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2013198420042008
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++CC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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