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Name

Description

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.85
Rank	#126	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#338	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

open.oceanbase.com

quasardb.net

Technical documentation

open.oceanbase.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

quasardb

Initial release

2011

2009

Current release

3.2.3, March 2022

3.13.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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 using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantages

High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Key customers

OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metrics

TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing models

Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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