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DBMS > BoltDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB vs. YottaDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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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#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltpostgis.netrethinkdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2013200520092001
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCC++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic single-document operationsoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 permissionsUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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