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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

objectbox.io

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1995

2017

2011

1984

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

optional

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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