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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Yandex

Initial release

1994

2011

2012

2019

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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#
Java

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Active-passive shard replication

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

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

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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