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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpouchdb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
spark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesqdrant.tech/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software FoundationQdrantApache Software Foundation
Initial release19942012202120142017
Current release18.1.40, May 20207.1.1, June 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScriptRustScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes
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 editionnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Collection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoKey-based authenticationnoRole-based access control

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