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DBMS > BoltDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
rocksdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon Web ServicesFacebook, Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2013202120132022
Current release2.5.0, January 20239.4.0, June 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageGoJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Java API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules
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BoltDBOpenSearchRocksDBSurrealDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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