Berkeley DB 12c

What do you like best?

Once you're setup you can create tables kind of quickly. There really isn't much else to like about it at all. I do not believe this database was a huge benefit to our team.

What do you dislike?

Seems like its missing a lot of the features that other NoSQL databases have. The API is confusing and the documentation is terrible. Due to literally nobody using it, if you have any issues, it's hard to find help on stack overflow if you have any issues. I can't think of any situation I would ever use this database over other databases. Part of this was due to us using a NoSQL database instead of a SQL database since our data was very structured and a NoSQL database was ill suited for our task. A SQL database would have been much preferable to using NoSQL. I personally would have liked to have used Postgres since it is the best SQL database in my opinion. Did I mention it was really really expensive? It was way too expensive and for what little value it brought to us it should really be alot cheaper. I think we were just using it because we had already started with it.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I would not try a different SQL database.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We were using it to create a human resources system. You could create tables quickly was the other real benefit. Not as quickly and easily as other NoSQL databases, of course, only more quickly than an SQL database.