DBMS > OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Widely used in-process key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

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

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

Technical documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

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

Developer

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

Initial release

1994

2020

2005

Current release

2.5, January 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
Go
Java
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

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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