DBMS > BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.eventstore.com

manticoresearch.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

Manticore Software

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2013

2012

2017

1989

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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