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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.progress.com/openedge

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

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

Developer

Rackspace

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Progress Software Corporation

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2013

2010

1984

2019

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

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

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