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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PlanetScale vs. Rockset vs. Sequoiadb

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational 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
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlplanetscale.comrockset.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.rockset.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePlanetScaleRocksetSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release1994202020192013
Current release18.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes infowith proprietary extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP RESTproprietary protocol using JSON
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
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoJavaScript
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at shard levelnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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 rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolesimple password-based access control

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