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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.mysql.com

quasar.ai

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

1995

2009

2013

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple password-based access control

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