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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL vs. TimesTen

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
spark.apache.org/­sqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleQdrantApache Software FoundationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release1994202120141998
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)RustScala
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumbers, 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 editionnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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