DBMS > BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Widely used open source RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

maxdb.sap.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2013

1984

1995

1987

2009

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source 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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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