DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

geospock.com

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

GeoSpock

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

2001

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1703

2.0, September 2019

2.7.2, June 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

MVCC

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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