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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.graphengine.io

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

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

Developer

McObject

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2001

2010

1994

Current release

8.2, 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

.NET and C

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

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

.NET

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
C++
F#
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

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

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

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent 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

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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