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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Widely used in-process key-value store

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Mobiland AG

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2018

1999

1994

1999

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

V8.0, August 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and Java

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

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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