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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Tkrzw vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Tkrzw vs. VelocityDB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
RDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrdf4j.orgwww.snowflake.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Snowflake Computing Inc.Mikio HirabayashiVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19942004201420202011
Current release18.1.40, May 20200.9.3, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 editionyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
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
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoBased on Windows Authentication

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