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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Widely used in-process key-value store

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

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

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

greptime.com

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2022

1994

2007

2008

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

14.1, August 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.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++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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