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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RavenDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlravendb.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleHibernating RhinosSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release199420102022
Current release18.1.40, May 20205.4, July 2022v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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 edition
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-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
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
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.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 databaseyes, based on authentication and database rules

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