DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. mSQL vs. Oracle vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. mSQL vs. Oracle vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Key-value store based on Berkeley DB Java Edition

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store info

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS info

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	21.58
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#161	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#128	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1346.68
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#79	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.foundationdb.org

www.hughes.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/index.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FoundationDB

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2013

1994

1980

2011

Current release

6.2.11, November 2019

4.2, April 2019

19c, February 2019

19.5, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

commercial info

free licenses can be provided

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Open Source info

Apache V2 for Community Edition, proprietary license for Enterprise Edition

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free info

some layers support schemas

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

optional, scheme definition possible with AVRO or in 'table-style'

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

optional

XML support info

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

supported in specific SQL layer only

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented info

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Python

in SQL-layer only

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

Electable Master-Slave per shard

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

depending on configuration

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

configurable info

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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'

yes

off heap cache

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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