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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

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

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

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1994

2011

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.5, January 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

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

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.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

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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