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System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. With MariaDB ColumnStore a column-oriented storage engine is available too.

Widely used in-process key-value store

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store info

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS info

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

Document store

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Score	91.61
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.56
Rank	#87	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#2	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#218	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) info

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2009

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

10.4.12, January 2020

18.1 (Core), June 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source info

commercial license available

Open Source info

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Azure Database for MariaDB: A fully managed, scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
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Implementation language

C and C++

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

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others info

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine or Galera cluster info

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
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Competitive advantages

High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Key customers

Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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Market metrics

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