DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sequoiadb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sequoiadb vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Widely used in-process key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.sequoiadb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1994

2013

2011

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

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)

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Immediate 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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