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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. SingleStore vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.singlestore.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.singlestore.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

on the application server

yes

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

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

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