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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used open source RDBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mysql.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

McObject

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenPie

Initial release

2001

2010

1995

Current release

8.2, 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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