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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SurrealDB vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SurrealDB vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Graph DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­servervelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSurrealDB Ltd8KdataVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1994202220162011
Current release18.1.40, May 2020v1.5.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)RustJavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
.Net
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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