DBMS > Datomic vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. Oracle vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. Oracle vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used RDBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database

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

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/en/database

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

Developer

Cognitect

Alachisoft

Oracle

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

Initial release

2012

2005

2017

1980

1998

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

23c, September 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

PL/SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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