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Name

Description

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

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.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

postgis.net

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Percona

Initial release

2013

2015

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL Version 2

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

schema-free

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

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

JavaScript

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

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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