DBMS > Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. TempoIQ vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. TempoIQ vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

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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

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

tempoiq.com (offline)

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

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

Developer

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

TempoIQ

Rocket Software

Initial release

2011

2014

2008

2012

1985

Current release

24.1, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

yes

none

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

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)

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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