DBMS > Ingres vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

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

Widely used RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Actian Corporation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

1980

2007

2019

Current release

11.2, May 2022

23c, September 2023

14.1, August 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.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
C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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