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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Score	1.71
Rank	#129	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

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

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

Developer

Softmotions

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2012

2017

1994

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

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