DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. JSqlDb vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. JSqlDb vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series 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	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jsqldb.org (offline)

nsdb.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io/Architecture

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

1994

Current release

0.8, December 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

Java
Scala

.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

user defined functions

in Python

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

using RocksDB

Using Apache Lucene

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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