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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Score	1.21
Rank	#146	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1339.48
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	5.83
Rank	#59	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Website

www.nuodb.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

Developer

NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

1980

1992

Current release

19c, February 2019

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

limited edition free

commercial info

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET

ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

Master-slave replication info

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Operational / OLTP database workloads in data centers or public clouds
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Key customers

Dassault Systemes, Santander, Temenos
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Market metrics

Fast growing commercial and enterprise customer base IDC Innovators: Dynamically...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based pricing with free community edition and commercial enterprise...
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News

Delivering Cloud-native, Cloud-agnostic Distributed SQL Database with NuoDB 4.0 (Corporate Blog)
29 July 2019

Using Let’s Encrypt Certificates in NuoDB - A Step by Step Tutorial (Tech Blog)
29 July 2019

Scale Out with NuoDB Community Edition (Tech Blog)
28 July 2019

Why Are Distributed Databases Perfect for Financial Services? (Corporate Blog)
11 July 2019

How Distributed SQL Powers Your Enterprise Digital Transformation (Corporate Blog)
28 June 2019

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