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System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. NuoDB vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

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

prometheus.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

IBM

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

2015

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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