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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. FatDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Widely used in-process key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.84
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SiteWhere

Initial release

2015

2012

1994

2010

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.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

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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