DBMS > Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.tarantool.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2011

2013

2014

2008

1985

Current release

23.3, December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

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

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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)

yes

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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