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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Widely used in-process key-value storeA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.tigergraph.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleByteDance, originally TerarkTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20131994201620171987
Current release18.1.40, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesyes
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 editionnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo.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++
Java
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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