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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperEsgynExasolGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152000201520102009
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoHadoop integrationyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, using Riak Security

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