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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Search engine

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

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

boilerbay.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2002

2013

1980

1994

2006

Current release

4.0

23c, September 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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++

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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