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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20132008201520131994
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V19.2.1, May 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noyesACID
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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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