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

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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

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

trafodion.apache.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

TempoIQ

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

2012

2014

2017

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, via HBase

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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