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DBMS > BoltDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. SwayDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltpostgis.netrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20132005200920152018
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 20203.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC++ErlangScala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynono
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGoC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsErlangno
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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