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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenQM vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenQM vs. Valentina Server

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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 CouchDBA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeMultivalue 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
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGeoSpockIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsParadigma Software
Initial release2010201219931999
Current release2.0, September 20193.4-125.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
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 JavaScriptnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
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 integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 databaseAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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