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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OushuDB vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OushuDB vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBprometheus.iorealm.iosqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.oushu.com/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOushuRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release1994201520142012
Current release18.1.40, May 20204.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.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
C
C++
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessnoyesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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