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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RavenDB vs. SingleStore vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlravendb.netwww.singlestore.comspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docsdocs.singlestore.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleHibernating RhinosSingleStore Inc.Apache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release19942010201320142020
Current release18.1.40, May 20205.4, July 20228.5, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL 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++, GoScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 editionnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language (RQL)yes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
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
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
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
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
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.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesno
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