DBMS > BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable 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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2014

2005

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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