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DBMS > BoltDB vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.monetdb.orgnsdb.ioswaydb.simer.auwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVSimer PlahaTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132004201720181987
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJava, ScalaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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