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DBMS > Netezza vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sqrrl vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sqrrl vs. VelocityDB

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NameNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesqrrl.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdoc.nuodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperIBMDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20002013200920122011
Current release3.2.0, December 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in appliancehosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLErlangnono
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes, using Riak SecurityCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Based on Windows Authentication

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