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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DataFS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2015

2018

2010

1994

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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