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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlquasar.aiwww.sadasengine.comwww.timescale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbSADAS s.r.l.TimescaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release19942009200620172018
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 20248.02.15.0, May 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++CGo
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 editionnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languageyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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