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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. DuckDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Rank	#255	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	2.57
Rank	#126	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

duckdb.org

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

duckdb.org/docs

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2017

2018

1994

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

0.2, August 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

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

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

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

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

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

CLI Client
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver

.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

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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Recent citations in the news

Apache Doris Updated With Much Faster Queries
6 February 2023, iProgrammer

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Doris™ as a Top-Level Project
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21 March 2023, github.com

Introduction to Apache Doris - Apache Doris
7 August 2022, doris.apache.org

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