Inspired by this comment, I was wondering what are the main differences between eosio::multi_index and boost:multi_index and why do they exist?
The documentation notes that there are important differences, but does not go into much detail about the differences:
The Multi-Index container interface eosio::multi_index provides a homogeneous container of an arbitrary C++ type (and it does not need to be a plain-old data type or be fixed-size) that is kept sorted in multiple indices by keys of various types that are derived from the objects. It can be compared to a traditional database table with rows, columns, and indices. It can also be easily compared to Boost Multi-index Containers. In fact many of the member function signatures of eosio::multi_index are modeled after boost::multi_index, although there are important differences.
