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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.nuodb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Esgyn

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2013

2010

2013

2009

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Erlang

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes, using Riak Security

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