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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS info

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Key-value store
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Score	2.01
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1268.84
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com/en/products

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/en/community/resources

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Exasol

Oracle

Initial release

2000

1980

Current release

18 (18.1), February 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.Net
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC

ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

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

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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