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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.Rockset
Initial release201319892014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132019
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 202210 R1, October 20188.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnodynamic typing
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoMVCCyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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