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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Event Store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Event Store Limited

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

2012

1991

1994

2009

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.7

18.1.40, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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