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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmaxdb.sap.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2010198420142022
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ScalaRust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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