DBMS > BigchainDB vs. LevelDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LevelDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used in-process key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/google/leveldb

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

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Google

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2011

1994

2013

Current release

1.23, February 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.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++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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