DBMS > GeoSpock vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

geospock.com

nsdb.io

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

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

GeoSpock

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

1994

2018

1987

Current release

2.0, September 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java, Scala

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

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

temporal, categorical

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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