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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. YugabyteDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA managed, cloud-native vector databaseThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
Wide column store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperSpotifyPinecone Systems, IncSAP, SybaseYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20132014201919872017
Current release16.02.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGoPythonC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava and Transact-SQLyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBHeroicPineconeSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASEYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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