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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

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

www.sqlite.org

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

vitess.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

1987

2000

2020

2013

Current release

16.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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++

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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