DBMS > BoltDB vs. NSDb vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. NSDb vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

nsdb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2017

2011

2018

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java, Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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

Recent citations in the news

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

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss
1 March 2024, The Hacker News

Roblox’s cloud-native catastrophe: A post mortem
31 January 2022, InfoWorld

How to Put a GUI on Ansible, Using Semaphore
22 April 2023, The New Stack

Grafana Loki: Architecture Summary and Running in Kubernetes
14 March 2023, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News

How TerminusDB is commercializing its open source graph database
16 March 2021, VentureBeat

[MCR2030-CAMS-ARISE-UNDRR Webinar] Preventing cascading failures of critical assets: Using the Open-Source Critical Asset Management System (CAMS) to help cities become disaster and climate resilient
12 April 2022, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Trinity College spinout TerminusDB secures €3.6m in investment
15 March 2021, The Irish Times

Bus Terminus Update – April 26th
26 April 2021, Around DB and Life on Lantau

provided by Google News

Share this page