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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQream DB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

sqream.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.sqream.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SQream Technologies

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

2010

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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