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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Website

www.mcobject.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

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

Developer

McObject

Oracle

Initial release

2001

2007

Current release

8.2, 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

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