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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.jaguardb.com

objectbox.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.objectbox.io

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

Developer

Esgyn

Actian Corporation

DataJaguar, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

2017

1994

Current release

11.2, May 2022

3.3 July 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

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

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.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

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica 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

Immediate 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

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

rights management via user accounts

yes

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13 June 2023

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