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DBMS > BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013201020152009
Current releaseV13.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoErlangErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes 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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, using Riak Security

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