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

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

postgis.net

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2013

2019

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

3.0, March 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

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

ANSI SQL 2011

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++
Java

.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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

Paul DiLaura of Dassault Systemes Joins NuoDB Board of Directors
18 April 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

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18 April 2024, Yahoo Movies UK

Dassault Systèmes Announces the Acquisition of NuoDB, a Cloud-Native Distributed SQL Database Leader
25 November 2020, Dassault Systèmes

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16 October 2017, The New Stack

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7 January 2020, TechTarget

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12 October 2020, PR Newswire

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