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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Widely used in-process key-value store

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

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

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2013

1994

2022

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

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

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

simple password-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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