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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Teradata vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used in-process key-value store

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

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

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

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

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

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

www.teradata.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.teradata.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Teradata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1994

1984

2019

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT 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)

Clojure

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

hosted
Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

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++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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