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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2013

2014

1994

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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