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DBMS > Altibase vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Pinecone

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesWidely used in-process key-value storeA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.leanxcale.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAltibaseLeanXcaleOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1999201519942019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Boolean
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infothrough Apache Derbyyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
Java
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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