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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. WakandaDB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTobias OetikerApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbHWakanda SAS
Initial release19941999201419872012
Current release18.1.40, May 20201.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 20222.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC and C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 editionno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
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
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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