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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingressitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationSiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20102014
Current release11.2, May 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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