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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LMDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlquasar.aigithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSpotifySymasOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbAlex Kashirin
Initial release20142011199420092020
Current release0.9.32, January 202418.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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