DBMS > BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PlanetScale vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PlanetScale vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.75
Rank	#146	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

planetscale.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

planetscale.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

PlanetScale

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1984

2020

2013

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID at shard level

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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