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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. OpenQM vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. OpenQM vs. Valentina Server

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingresvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGeoSpockIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsParadigma Software
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19931999
Current release2.0, September 201911.2, May 20223.4-125.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptErlangC
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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