DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. openGauss vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. openGauss vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2005

2010

2019

2013

Current release

V12

3.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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