DBMS > Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

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

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

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

Developer

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP, Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2011

2013

2006

1987

2014

Current release

23.3, December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

16.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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