DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

1993

2014

2016

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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