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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Huawei and openGauss community

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2015

2010

2019

2020

Current release

3.0, March 2022

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, C++, Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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