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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Altibase

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1999

2013

2010

2006

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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