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DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Widely used in-process key-value storeOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlprometheus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceSoftmotionsOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20132013201219942015
Current release18.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnononoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranonenoneSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
nonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononono

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