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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

prometheus.io

swaydb.simer.au

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Oracle

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2011

2015

2018

Current release

24.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

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

by Federation

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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