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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used in-process key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.05
Rank	#354	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.79
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	35.22
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#381	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

machbase.com

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

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

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Machbase

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

1994

2010

2011

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

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

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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