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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrocksdb.orgrockset.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.rockset.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleFacebook, Inc.RocksetAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release1994201320192012
Current release18.1.40, May 20209.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonodynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
HTTP RESTJavaScript 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
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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