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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used in-process key-value store

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

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

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

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

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

1994

1992

1987

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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