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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aispark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­masterspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbApache Software Foundation
Initial release2017201020092014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20213.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and JavaErlangC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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