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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Redis vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	0.80
Rank	#173	Overall
	#30	Key-value stores

Score	144.08
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

redis.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

redis.io/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

2013

Current release

5.0.5, May 2019

6.2.2, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

MIT License

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Open Source info

BSD

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

XML support info

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

yes

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

yes

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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