DBMS > BoltDB vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2013

2014

2018

Current release

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Synchronous replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

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

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