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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2 vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Widely used in-process key-value store

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.h2database.com

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

rethinkdb.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Rackspace

Thomas Mueller

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

2005

1994

2009

2006

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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