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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

machbase.com

www.mysql.com

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

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

Developer

McObject

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Initial release

2001

2013

1995

2011

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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