DBMS > BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cassandra 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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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

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

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Sybase, SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

2008

2014

1993

1999

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.

Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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