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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. OushuDB vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

postgis.net

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.oushu.com/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oushu

Initial release

2013

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

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

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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