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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. TempoIQ vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. TempoIQ vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlquasar.aitempoiq.com (offline)www.timescale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbTempoIQTimescaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release19942009201220172018
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 20242.15.0, 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 licensescommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++CGo
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
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 tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIADO.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
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
.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 APInoyes infoRealtime Alertsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
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 modenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple authentication-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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