DBMS > MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

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

tempoiq.com (offline)

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

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

TempoIQ

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1995

2007

2011

2012

2019

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

14.1, August 2023

24.1, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

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

.Net
C++
Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

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

optionally

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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