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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial 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	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1995

2011

1980

2013

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

23c, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

isolation level can be parameterized

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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