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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

altibase.com

bangdb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Altibase

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1999

2012

2010

1993

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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