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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20102002
Current releaseGBase 8a4.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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