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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PlanetScale vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PlanetScale vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlplanetscale.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimespark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePlanetScaleMireoApache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release19942020202020142020
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 editionnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes infowith proprietary extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
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
C#
C++
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnonono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)none
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesno

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