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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kingbase.com.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

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

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Google

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2010

1999

2014

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and Java

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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