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DBMS > BigObject vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#278  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release201520102010
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonepartitioning by range, list and by hashSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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