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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FeatureBase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	0.80
Rank	#206	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#302	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	1.82
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.featurebase.com

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

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.featurebase.com

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

Developer

Altibase

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

1999

2017

1994

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2022, May 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

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

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL queries

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
Python

.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

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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