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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

orientdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1994

2010

2011

2012

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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 and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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