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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.postgres-xl.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

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

Transwarp

Initial release

2017

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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