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DBMS > OpenQM vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Titan

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NameOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpatial extension of SQLiteTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleAlessandro FurieriAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release199319942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20082012
Current release3.4-1218.1.40, May 202010 R1, October 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)CC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-lessLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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