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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2011

1994

2000

2020

Current release

24.1, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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