DBMS > atoti vs. EXASOL vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. EXASOL vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

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Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used in-process key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

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Website

atoti.io

www.exasol.com

nsdb.io

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.exasol.com/resources

nsdb.io/Architecture

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

ActiveViam

Exasol

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2017

1994

2013

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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