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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB

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Name

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

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

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

Widely used RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

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

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

www.oracle.com/database

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

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

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Circonus LLC.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2023

2017

2013

1980

2010

Current release

1.0, March 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

23c, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

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

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in Lua

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java, Javascript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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