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DBMS > BoltDB vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. YottaDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.monetdb.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2013200420092001
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCErlangC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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 indexesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RErlang
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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