DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Infobright vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Infobright vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

boilerbay.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2002

2005

1984

2011

2009

Current release

4.0

7.9.10.12, February 2024

23.3, December 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

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