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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OceanBase vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#119	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

en.oceanbase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

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

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

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

Developer

IBM

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2017

2010

1984

1994

Current release

2.0

4.3.0, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

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

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

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

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

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

yes

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users and groups

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