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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Rockset vs. Sequoiadb

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Rockset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1994

2019

2013

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

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++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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