DBMS > Oracle NoSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimescaleDB

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

rethinkdb.com

www.sadasengine.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Timescale

Initial release

2011

2009

2015

2006

2017

Current release

24.1, May 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

8.0

2.15.0, May 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

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

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

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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