DBMS > CockroachDB vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used in-process key-value store

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Rank	#55	Overall
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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

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

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.harperdb.io

manticoresearch.com

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

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Cockroach Labs

HarperDB

Manticore Software

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2017

1994

2004

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

3.1, August 2021

6.0, February 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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