DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

nsdb.io

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

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

2017

1994

Current release

8.0, December 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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