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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sybase, SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

1993

1999

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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