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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. XTDB

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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)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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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	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2015

2019

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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