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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

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

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

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

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

IBM

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Transwarp

Initial release

2017

1994

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.0

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C and C++

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

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.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

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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