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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. OushuDB vs. Pinecone vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A managed, cloud-native vector database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.pinecone.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Oracle

Oushu

Pinecone Systems, Inc

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2011

2019

2016

Current release

24.1, May 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++

Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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