DBMS > BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

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

rocksdb.org

sqream.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

1984

2013

2017

2001

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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