DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > BoltDB vs. chDB vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. chDB vs. NCache

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonchDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#230  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#30  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.iowww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAlachisoft
Initial release201320232005
Current release5.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
BoltDBchDBNCache
Recent citations in the news

Typosquat Supply Chain Attack Targets Go Developers
5 February 2025, DevOps.com

Malicious Go Package Exploits Module Mirror Caching for Persistent Remote Access
4 February 2025, The Hacker News

Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years
4 February 2025, theregister.com

Malicious package found in the Go ecosystem – update
5 February 2025, InfoWorld

What I learnt from building 3 high traffic web applications on an embedded key value store.
21 February 2018, HackerNoon

provided by Google News

NCache Distributed Cache for .NET Gets Open Sourced
28 January 2015, Visual Studio Magazine

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here