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DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Solr vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Solr vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsolr.apache.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.SAP, SybaseApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaTimescale
Initial release20131987200620182017
Current release8.11.4, April 202416.09.6.0, April 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfacenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava and Transact-SQLJava pluginsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDoptimistic lockingAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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