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DBMS > Ingres vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. VelocityDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
velocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperActian CorporationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleQdrantVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s199420212011
Current release11.2, May 202218.1.40, May 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)RustC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.Net
Supported programming languages.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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APICallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKey-based authenticationBased on Windows Authentication

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