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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

2014

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

Current release

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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