DBMS > Kingbase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Widely used in-process key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SiteWhere

Initial release

1999

1994

1984

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

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 and Java

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

predefined scheme

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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