DBMS > BoltDB vs. SQLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. SQLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

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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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2000

2005

1987

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

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

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

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

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

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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