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System Properties Comparison OceanBase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

en.oceanbase.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

postgis.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Percona

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2010

2015

2005

1998

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

JavaScript

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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