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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#230  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#261  Overall
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#228  Overall
#106  Relational DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­databaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperquasardbRisingWave LabsFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200920222013
Current release10 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 20241.2, September 20239.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC++RustC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSONno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoMVCCACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and Rolesno

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