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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. openGauss vs. PostGIS vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. openGauss vs. PostGIS vs. VoltDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
postgis.netwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
postgis.net/­documentationdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Huawei and openGauss communityVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20102015201920052010
Current release3.3 July 20233.0, March 20223.4.2, February 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++, JavaCJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersANSI SQL 2011yesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesuser defined functionsJava
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)yes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 databaserights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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