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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rockset.com

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.rockset.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Rockset

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1994

2019

2006

2011

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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