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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Object-relational database and reports server

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.valentina-db.net

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Paradigma Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2009

1999

2011

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

5.7.5

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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