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DBMS > Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. Ultipa

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperRackspaceIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleUltipa
Initial release2013201020142019
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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