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DBMS > GBase vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2004200220102013
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, SQL
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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