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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orghsqldb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsqream.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSAP infoformerly SybaseSQream Technologies
Initial release20132008200119922017
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.7.2, June 202317, July 20152022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJava, SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACID
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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