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System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. OushuDB vs. SingleStore vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.singlestore.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)OushuSingleStore Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release1984201320012011
Current release7.4.1.1, 20214.0.1, August 20208.5, January 20243.5.1, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++C#
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSLinuxLinux info64 bit version requiredFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infohash partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlKerberos, SSL and role based accessFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
Oracle RdbOushuDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSphinxVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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