DBMS > ITTIA vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ittia.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2013

1992

2010

Current release

8.7

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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