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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SWC-DB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Widely used in-process key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

cachelot.io

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Alex Kashirin

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1994

2020

2019

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

0.5, April 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

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

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

C++

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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