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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLThe 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 storeRelational DBMSSpatial 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
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspostgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperMicrosoftSAP, SybaseSTS Soft SC
Initial release20131992200519872011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.2, February 202416.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CC and C++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-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 integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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