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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml

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Name	EJDB  Xexclude from comparison	Oracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server 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)	Widely used in-process key-value store	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database model	Document store	Key-value store supports sorted and unsorted key sets Native XML DBMS in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version	Relational DBMS	Native XML DBMS Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.31 Rank #296   Overall #44   Document stores	Score 2.01 Rank #126   Overall #21   Key-value stores #3   Native XML DBMS		Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines
Website	github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentation	github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md	docs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html		www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer	Softmotions	Oracle originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle	Sybase, SAP	informationpartners gmbh
Initial release	2012	1994	1993	2015
Current release		18.1.40, May 2020		1.0
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source GPLv2	Open Source commercial license available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C	C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)		C++
Server operating systems	server-less	AIX Android FreeBSD iOS Linux OS X Solaris VxWorks Windows	Linux Windows	Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id	no	yes	yes
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	no	yes
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	in-process shared library		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT
Supported programming languages	Actionscript C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Lua Objective-C Pike Python Ruby	.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	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	yes on the application server
Triggers	no	yes only for the SQL API	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	yes sychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system			Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	multiple readers, single writer
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Read/Write Locking		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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