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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Newts vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

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Rank	#106	Overall
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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

opennms.github.io/newts

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Hughes Technologies

OpenNMS Group

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2010

1994

2014

1984

Current release

4.4, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

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