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DBMS > Datomic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB vs. Ultipa

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWidely used in-process key-value storeRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsqream.comwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.sqream.comwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperCognitectOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSAP infoformerly SybaseSQream TechnologiesUltipa
Initial release20121994199220172019
Current release1.0.6735, June 202318.1.40, May 202017, July 20152022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions in Python
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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