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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Widely used in-process key-value store

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.esgyn.cn

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Qdrant

Initial release

2018

2015

1994

2021

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

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

Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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