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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Oracle vs. Pinecone vs. RRDtool vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

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	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.pinecone.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Tobias Oetiker

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1995

1980

2019

1999

2019

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

23c, September 2023

1.8.0, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

Numeric data only

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP REST
JDBC

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#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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