DBMS > EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

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Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2013

2007

2014

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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