DBMS > BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
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Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

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

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2013

1984

2009

2013

2019

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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