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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

Initial release

2015

2010

2014

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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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