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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.27
Rank	#67	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

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

origodb.com

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

ScyllaDB

Initial release

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), 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)

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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