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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.mcobject.com

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

McObject

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2001

2013

2014

Current release

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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