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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#342	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

postgis.net

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2010

2015

1993

2005

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.4-12

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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DB-Engines blog posts

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Recent citations in the news

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22 March 2014, App Developer Magazine

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