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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oxford Semantic TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010200520172014
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
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 lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access typesno

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