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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

quasar.ai

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

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

doc.nuodb.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

quasardb

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2015

2012

2013

2009

1998

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Temporary table

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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