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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Search engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlsphinxsearch.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSphinx Technologies Inc.Mikio HirabayashiVictoriaMetrics
Initial release1994200120202018
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.5.1, February 20230.9.3, August 2020v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonono
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 editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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