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DBMS > BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score134.79
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#366  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltclickhouse.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.hawkular.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.ElasticCommunity supported by Red HatSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20132016201020141992
Current releasev23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20238.6, January 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonekey based and customShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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