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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. TempoIQ vs. Trafodion

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Website

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

postgis.net

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

tempoiq.com (offline)

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

TempoIQ

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2005

2017

2012

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

replication via a shared file system

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Roles, resources, and access types

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

'7 Minutes' with NuoDB SVP of Sales Stephen Fahey
9 February 2024, Channel Futures

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25 November 2020, Dassault Systèmes

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16 October 2017, The New Stack

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31 January 2017, ADT Magazine

NuoDB Raises $14.2M Round Led By Dassault Systèmes For Its Distributed Database Management System
26 February 2014, TechCrunch

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19 July 2024, evertiq.com

University spin-out Oxford Semantic Technologies acquired by Samsung Electronics
16 July 2024, University of Oxford

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20 July 2024, Oxford Mail

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