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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.memcached.orgpouchdb.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalApache Software FoundationCesbit
Initial release2013200320122017
Current release1.6.27, May 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnosimple rights management via user accounts

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