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DBMS > FatDB vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.timescale.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFatCloudChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014informationpartners gmbhTimescale
Initial release20122017201020152017
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.02.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#C and JavaErlangC++C
Server operating systemsWindowsLinuxhostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsuser defined procedures and functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblemultiple readers, single writerACID
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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