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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrethinkdb.comwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Dwayne Richard HippSTS Soft SC
Initial release1994200920002011
Current release18.1.40, May 20202.4.1, August 20203.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++CC#
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.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
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APIClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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