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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.52
Rank#114  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlprometheus.ioquasar.aiwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbSybase, SAP
Initial release1994201520091993
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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