DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used in-process key-value store

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Percona

Initial release

2015

1979

1991

1994

2015

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.7

18.1.40, May 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

optional

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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