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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle vs. STSdb vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2013

1993

1980

2011

2020

Current release

3.4-12

23c, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

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

Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

C#
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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