DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used in-process key-value store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

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

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

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1989

2014

1994

1987

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

.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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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