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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

ravendb.net

www.risingwave.com/database

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

RisingWave Labs

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2010

2022

1992

2000

Current release

5.4, July 2022

1.2, September 2023

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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