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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value 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

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

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

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Percona

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1994

2015

2009

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

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