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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Widely used RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Chris Davis

Microsoft

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2006

2014

1980

2006

Current release

23c, September 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

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

hosted

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
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
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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