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DBMS > mSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeOracles in-memory data grid solutionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeRDF storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerdf4j.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.8Kdata
Initial release19941994200720042016
Current release4.4, October 202118.1.40, May 202014.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.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++
Java
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles

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