DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Oracle vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Oracle vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Widely used RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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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Trend Chart

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Google

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Rocket Software

Yanza

Initial release

2008

1980

2011

1985

2015

Current release

23c, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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