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DBMS > Ingres vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlquasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperActian CorporationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbSTS Soft SC
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s199420092011
Current release11.2, May 202218.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API.NET Client API
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
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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