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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SurrealDB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software FoundationSAP, SybaseSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1994201219872022
Current release18.1.40, May 20207.1.1, June 201916.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScriptC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
JavaScriptC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
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
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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