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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Informix vs. OrientDB

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.gigaspaces.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
www.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperDoltHub IncGigaspaces TechnologiesIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20182000201019842010
Current release15.5, September 202014.10.FC5, November 20203.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetErlangC, C++ and JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyesSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesJava, Javascript
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyesyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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