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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A multi-model DBMS and application serverA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.69
Rank#115  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachequestdb.iorocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperInterSystemsQuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20131997201420131992
Current release2018.1.4, May 20208.10.0, December 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID for single-table writesyesACID
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.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBInterSystems CachéQuestDBRocksDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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