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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Oracle

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2011

2005

2012

Current release

24.1, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

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

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

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.

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

user defined functions

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

no

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