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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Badger vs. FatDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Altibase

DGraph Labs

FatCloud

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

1999

2017

2012

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

via applications

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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