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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

ravendb.net

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

ravendb.net/docs

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2013

1989

2010

2020

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.4, July 2022

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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