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Name

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store info

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Score	13.42
Rank	#38	Overall
	#6	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#4	Search engines

Score	1346.66
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.marklogic.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Oracle

Initial release

2001

1980

Current release

9.0, 2017

19c, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

restricted free version is available

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free info

Schema can be enforced

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API info

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
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 info

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

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

User concepts info

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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