DBMS > atoti vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

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

vitess.io

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

vitess.io/docs

Developer

ActiveViam

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1998

2013

Current release

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

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

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

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
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

PL/SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

MVCC

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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