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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RisingWave vs. VelocityDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RisingWave vs. VelocityDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.risingwave.com/­databasevelocitydb.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRisingWave LabsVelocityDB IncVictoriaMetrics
Initial release1994202220112018
Current release18.1.40, May 20201.2, September 20237.xv1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)RustC#Go
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NETFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NetGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoUDFs in Python or Javanono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and RolesBased on Windows Authentication

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