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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxWell established RDBMSPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.jaguardb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.actian.com/­ingreswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperEsgynIBMActian CorporationDataJaguar, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20151983 infohost version1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20151994
Current release12.1, October 201611.2, May 20223.3 July 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++CC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Ingres ReplicatorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno

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