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

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
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Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

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

ravendb.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Hibernating Rhinos

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

1984

2010

2013

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

5.4, July 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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