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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RavenDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlravendb.netsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleHibernating RhinosSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC8Kdata
Initial release19942010200120112016
Current release18.1.40, May 20205.4, July 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
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++C#Java
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client 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
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenonoAccess rights for users and roles

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