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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

origodb.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

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)

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.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

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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