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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Infobright vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

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

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2019

2005

2007

2011

1998

Current release

14.1, August 2023

24.1, May 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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