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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.52
Rank#114  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#121  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePerconaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SC
Initial release1994200820092011
Current release18.1.40, May 20208.0.36-28, 20242.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 editionyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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