DBMS > Altibase vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

geode.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

2002

2010

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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