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DBMS > Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-based data warehousing serviceWell established RDBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceIBMActian CorporationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release201320141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19941992
Current release11.2, May 202218.1.40, May 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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