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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Axibase vs. CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

couchdb.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2013

2005

2017

1980

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

15585

3.3.3, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
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

user defined functions

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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 for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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