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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. GridDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

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

Website

atoti.io

griddb.net

google.github.io/lovefield

www.progress.com/openedge

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

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.griddb.net

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

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

Developer

ActiveViam

Toshiba Corporation

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2013

2014

1984

1994

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

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

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.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

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

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

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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