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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PieCloudDB vs. QuestDB vs. Rockset

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
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 store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.openpie.comquestdb.iorockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOpenPieQuestDB Technology IncRockset
Initial release199420142019
Current release18.1.40, May 20202.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesdynamic typing
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 editionnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesSQL with time-series extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
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
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Oracle Berkeley DBPieCloudDBQuestDBRockset
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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