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System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Widely used in-process key-value store

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Rocket Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1994

1985

2011

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.Net

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

U2 Basic

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

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

configurable

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Based on Windows Authentication

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