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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. Ingres vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Well established RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

galaxybase.com

hive.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.oracle.com/en/database

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

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Actian Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1980

2007

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

11.2, May 2022

23c, September 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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