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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn 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 systemLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#114  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlprometheus.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSybase, SAP
Initial release20132012199420151993
Current release18.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.noyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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