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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.progress.com/­openedgeprometheus.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EmbarcaderoProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20172010198419842015
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021InterBase 2020, December 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaErlangCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsno

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