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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.74
Rank	#129	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#385	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Alex Kashirin

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1994

2020

2014

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

0.5, April 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
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++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

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

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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