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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SingleStore vs. Splice Machine vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Yaacomo

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.singlestore.comsplicemachine.comvictoriametrics.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSingleStore Inc.Splice MachineVictoriaMetricsQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19942013201420182009
Current release18.1.40, May 20208.5, January 20243.1, March 2021v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, GoJavaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoJavano
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infohash partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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