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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrocksdb.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperMicrosoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Facebook, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20131989198420132014
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20227.4.1.1, 20219.2.1, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP Open VMSLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyes, on a single nodeyesno
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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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