DBMS > Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Widely used RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database

origodb.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

2013

1980

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

23c, September 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Erlang

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

yes, using Riak Security

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