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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

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

www.openpie.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

Developer

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

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

OpenPie

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

1994

2020

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

2.1, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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