DBMS > BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP, Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

1984

2005

1987

2011

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

16.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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