DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Widely used in-process key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SiteWhere

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

1994

2010

2011

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Based on Windows Authentication

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