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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.02
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#14	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	13.30
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#391	Overall
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.vertica.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

vertica.com/documentation

doc.wakanda.org/home2.en.html#/Datastore/Introduction.200-588937.en.html

Developer

Oracle

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2011

2005

2012

Current release

23.1, May 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Vertica Accelerator’s high-performance analytics and machine learning with SQL or Python is available as SaaS.

Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

Triggers

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

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

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Bi-directional Spark 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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

yes

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Key customers

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