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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Altibase

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1999

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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