DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Widely used RDBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.kinetica.com

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

www.oracle.com/database

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.kinetica.com

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

McObject

Kinetica

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2001

2012

2013

1980

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

8.2, 2021

7.1, August 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

by defining events

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

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

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

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

Temporary table

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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