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DBMS > Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAltibaseCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release1999201320102015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authentication

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