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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Tarantool vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Tarantool vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tarantool.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationVKTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102005201420081987
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.10.0, May 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCScalaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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