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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiteWhere vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

doc.nuodb.com

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

SiteWhere

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2010

2013

2007

2010

Current release

V12

14.1, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

configurable

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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