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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Widely used in-process key-value storeLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSybase, SAPWakanda SAS
Initial release20232008199419932012
Current release1.0, March 20237.2.4, September 201218.1.40, May 20202.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyesyes
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 editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
.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
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyesyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoonly for the SQL APIyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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