DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiriDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiriDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Widely used in-process key-value store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bangdb.com

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

siridb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bangdb.com

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

docs.siridb.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Cesbit

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

1994

2017

1999

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

Numeric data

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes (enterprise version only)

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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