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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Widely used in-process key-value store

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational 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

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

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

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

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

prometheus.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

prometheus.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

1994

2015

1987

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

.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++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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