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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpark 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
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.52
Rank#114  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlprometheus.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release1994201520142020
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON 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
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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