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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

1983

host version

1995

1984

2006

Current release

12.1, October 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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