DBMS > Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used in-process key-value store

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

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

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

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

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Machbase

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Percona

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

2013

1994

2008

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

8.0.36-28, 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

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

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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