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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.progress.com/openedge

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

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

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

Developer

Softmotions

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2013

2012

1984

1994

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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