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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)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.55
Rank	#220	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	3.20
Rank	#94	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores

Score	123.17
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2000

Current release

6.14.6 , December 2020

3.34.1, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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