DBMS > Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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Description

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
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Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2011

2010

Current release

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

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

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

MVCC

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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