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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2010

2008

2012

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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