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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrientDB vs. RRDtool

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlorientdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPTobias Oetiker
Initial release20002010198420101999
Current release7.4.1.1, 20213.2.29, March 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedHP Open VMSAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptno
TriggersyesyesHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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