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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.76
Rank#171  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score4.29
Rank#93  Overall
#17  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.ibm.com/­cloud/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAltibaseIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release19992010
Current releasev7.1.0.5.3, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyes
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Implementation languageC++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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