DBMS > NuoDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used in-process key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

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

Score	1.47
Rank	#188	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	3.82
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#310	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

nuodb.com

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

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

Developer

NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

1994

2011

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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

Implementation language

C++

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

none

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
4 August 2014, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

SQL Server Transformation Market Size And Forecast -Oracle ...
5 June 2023, KaleidoScot

Dassault Systèmes Announces the Acquisition of NuoDB, a Cloud ...
25 November 2020, Business Wire

NuoDB set to improve distributed SQL performance
7 January 2020, TechTarget

NuoDB 4.0 improves cloud-native database capabilities
31 July 2019, TechTarget

Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1
12 July 2013, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

Fedora Looking To Transition The RPM Database From Berkeley DB To SQLite
16 March 2020, Phoronix

Berkeley DB Java Edition - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin | Marketplace
3 June 2023, plugins.jetbrains.com

Oracle Berkeley DB
10 February 2023, oracle.com

Microsoft Access vs Oracle Berkeley DB: Database Comparison
15 May 2023, 6sense.com

Berkeley-db-1.xx keeps reporting errors when compiling · micropython · Discussion #10658
4 February 2023, github.com

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Senior Software Engineer - Remote
Dassault Systèmes, Waltham, MA

Simulation Process & Data Management (SPDM) Solution Architect
Dassault Systèmes, Johnston, RI

jobs by

Share this page