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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. DolphinDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.62
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.16
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#131	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

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

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DolphinDB, Inc

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2008

2018

1994

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community version available

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
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.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

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Administrators, Users, Groups

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