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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2003

2017

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

6, April 2015

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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