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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.53
Rank	#103	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2017

2010

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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