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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document 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	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.oracle.com/database

pouchdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

pouchdb.com/guides

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2001

1980

2012

2003

Current release

5.10, January 2022

11.0, December 2022

23c, September 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

7, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

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

SQL92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

View functions in JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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