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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitealtibase.commanticoresearch.comwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseManticore SoftwareDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release1999201720031994
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20236.0, February 20231.6.27, May 202418.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++CC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannono
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.noCan index from XMLyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.noyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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