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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataWidely used open source RDBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmachbase.comwww.mysql.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmachbase.com/­dbmsdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MachbaseOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20102013199520002014
Current releaseV8.0, August 20238.4.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliancehosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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