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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opennms.github.io/newts

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1994

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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