DBMS > Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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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

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2011

2014

2012

1987

2011

Current release

23.3, December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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)

schema-free

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.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

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

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

yes

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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