DBMS > Ehcache vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

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

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1993

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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