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System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrientDB vs. Tibero vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

orientdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

TmaxSoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1980

2007

2010

2003

2020

Current release

23c, September 2023

14.1, August 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

6, April 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C and Assembler

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java, Javascript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

planned for next version

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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