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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. StarRocks

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpostgis.netquasar.aiwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2010200520092020
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20243.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
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.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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