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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

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Name	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Oracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	In-memory caching system	Widely used in-process key-value store	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Key-value store	Key-value store supports sorted and unsorted key sets Native XML DBMS in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 2.01 Rank #126   Overall #21   Key-value stores #3   Native XML DBMS		Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	cachelot.io	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation		docs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html		www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer		Oracle originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle	Sybase, SAP	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2015	1994	1993	1987
Current release		18.1.40, May 2020		Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	Open Source commercial license available	commercial	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)		C and C++
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	AIX Android FreeBSD iOS Linux OS X Solaris VxWorks Windows	Linux Windows	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	no	yes	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.	no	yes only with the Berkeley DB XML edition	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby	.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	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	yes
Triggers	no	yes only for the SQL API	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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