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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blueflood vs. Geode vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

blueflood.io

geode.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Altibase

Rackspace

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Oracle

Initial release

1999

2013

2002

1980

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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