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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Kinetica

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2019

2012

1980

Current release

7.1, August 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

optimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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