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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Widely used in-process key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SiteWhere

Initial release

2019

1994

2010

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.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

Lua

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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