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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score37.12
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.memcached.orgquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQuestDB Technology IncSAP, SybaseSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132003201419872011
Current release1.6.25, March 202416.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC and C++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID for single-table writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBMemcachedQuestDBSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESTSdb
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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