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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. QuestDB

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.38
Rank	#101	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#146	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

questdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

questdb.io/docs/introduction

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

QuestDB Limited

Initial release

1994

2014

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Configurable consistency for N replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0.
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