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

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

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Widely used in-process key-value storeHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineLow-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 modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOxford Semantic TechnologiesSybase, SAPWakanda SAS
Initial release20081994201719932012
Current release7.2.4, September 201218.1.40, May 20206.0, Septermber 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
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
C
Java
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersno 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 nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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