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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OushuDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Widely used in-process key-value store

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oushu

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2023

1994

2018

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.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++

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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