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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orgquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVquasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2010200420092008
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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