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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1994

1992

2017

2014

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

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)

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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