DBMS > Oracle NoSQL vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog vs. TimesTen

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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

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.40
Rank	#268	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

raima.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.stardog.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.raima.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.stardog.com

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

Developer

Oracle

Raima Inc.

SAP

Stardog-Union

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2011

1984

2010

1998

Current release

24.1, May 2024

15, June 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

SQLScript, R

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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