DBMS > Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

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

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1984

2009

2013

1987

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

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

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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