DBMS > BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Solr

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2006

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

yes

optimistic locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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