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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SurrealDB

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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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

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

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2013

2019

2022

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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